111 W. 57th St: Architects' and Engineer's Presentations
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2025
- Panel discussion on March 11, 2014, moderated by Carol Willis, Director of the Skyscraper Museum:
SHoP Architects, WSP Group, and developer Michael Stern, Managing Partner, JDS Development Group
Speakers:
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Partner, SHoP Architects
Gregg Pasquarelli, Partner, SHoP Architects
Chris Sharples, Partner, SHoP Architects
Silvian Marcus, Principal in Charge, WSP Group
In conjunction with its exhibition SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury,
The Skyscraper Museum presents a series of lectures and panel discussions by the architects, engineers, and developers of New York’s new characteristic form of super-slender ultra luxury residential towers.
Among the extraordinary new crop of New York's super-slim, ultra-luxury residential towers surveyed in The Skyscraper Museum's exhibition SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury, the most slender of all is the 111 W. 57th St., designed by SHoP Architects, with structural engineering by WSP Group for JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group. With a ratio of the width of the base to height of 1:23, the 1,350+ ft tower will be the most slender building in the world.
SHoP's design harkens back to the quality, materiality, and emphatic verticality of historic NYC skyscrapers, while utilizing advanced engineering and technology to craft a contemporary contribution to the skyline. The tower's silhouette rises in an elegant series of feathered setbacks, while the façade reads at multiple scales and vantage points. An intricate pattern of shaped terracotta panels and bronze latticework on the east and west façades creates a sweeping play of light and shadow, while a glass curtain wall on the north and south façades provide sweeping views of Central Park and Midtown.
SHoP Architects was founded in 1996 on a premise of proving that intelligent and evocative architecture can be made in the real world, with real world constraints, and has made a name for itself by pioneering the use of innovative technologies to produce both iconic architectural forms and a new model for the profession.
WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Its New York-based structural engineer, the WSP Group (formerly Cantor Seinuk) are the designers of the structural systems for a majority of the city's super-slender towers now under construction.
SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury, on view at The Skyscraper Museum through April, examines the recent proliferation of super-slim, ultra-luxury residential towers on the rise in Manhattan. The exhibition was open to the public from 5:00 to 6:30 before the lecture.
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Stunning. Kudos to the risk takers and engineers.
what an incredibly beautiful tower
I almost feel in love with this building....
47:38 honestly there is software since decades for simulation
super, fiercely beautiful building
Seeing the framework yesterday from 72 West side Park near the dakota buillding , it struck me as a very thin almost waif-like structure..I must say it appeared as if the footprint availability albeit centered in the park was perfect for a 4 story building.
I hope you pull it off. NY times just reported a large contract just signed today .
Amazing what sensibilities the wealthy will appreciates Maybe I am traditionalist but I would prefer a more balanced building, The chopstick frame is cool and new, but l would take a upper west side view from 8 stories any day of the week.
Lot safer from an errant plane impact or ground shake.
Silvian Marcus part was very interesting, but was abruptly interrupted by some overcontrolling lady. Not sure why she didn't let him to finish.
Uhhh and uhhh
Clearly majority of the audience doesn’t want to listen to the structural engineer, in the end of the day, to understand the physics behind the structure requires some mental capacity. That’s why let the architects talk, so people there won’t need to use much of their brain to understand them.
Is concrete strength why One Vanderbilt went with steel up before core?
Do they stagger the contact points of the terra cotta?
Um.. Uh... Umm ... Umm... Uhhh
Another building built using undocumented workers. And greedy developers charging top dollar for inferior work. The developer building this project has an abysmal safety record and has been responsible for numerous major incidents in NY .
Wowwww
What a monstrosity.
Skyscrapers always had a primary functional purpose. The supertalls serve no functional purpose other than as an investment instrument. They don't contribute to the urban fabric.